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Fireworks and fireballs.


Anyone who attended this year's Northern Ontario Business Northern Ontario Business is a Canadian magazine, which publishes monthly in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The magazine covers business news and issues in Northern Ontario.  Awards Generation of Excellence event was surely left with fond memories of the uniqueness of the venue (held in a former Eaton's store in downtown Sudbury), the spectacular indoor fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics.
fireworks

Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to
 display and the quirky golf, carts that carted attendees to the "facilities" of choice.

But the most memorable impression of this year's awards has to be the calibre of the winners, in particular, the young entrepreneurs who stole the show with their honesty, spirit and humour.

Don George Aiken
For the playwright, see George Aiken (playwright).


George David Aiken (August 20, 1892 – November 19, 1984) was an American politician from Vermont. He served as Governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and as a U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1975.
 was 16 when he started his first business. The Red Lake-based entrepreneur, whose full story is printed in the NOBA NOBA Notice of Budget Approval (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
NOBA Nautikos Omilos Bolou Kai Argonautes (Nautical Club of Volos and Argonauts, Greece) 
 Generation of Excellence Souvenir Program, had the room in his hand when he accepted his award as Young Entrepreneur of the Generation in front of 700 business leaders from around the North.

This 23-year-old, who now owns four chip wagons and the local Kentucky Fried Chicken/Pizza Hut franchise, is finding enough energy and interest to run for municipal council in this November's municipal, elections. What a fireball fireball, very bright meteor leaving a trail in the sky that can remain visible for several minutes; often a distinct sound, perhaps caused by very low frequency radio waves, is associated with it. , and what a genuinely enterprising and entertaining individual. I believe we can expect to hear more from this young man in the near future.

Alain Boucher, the Union Gas Essay Scholarship winner, is another young entrepreneur who likes business.

Boucher, who started Advanced Sealing three years ago took the opportunity to solicit the impressive audience before him for business.

His sales pitch was met with thunderous thun·der·ous  
adj.
1. Producing thunder or a similar sound.

2. Loud and unrestrained in a way that suggests thunder: thunderous applause.
 applause. All of the winners' stories were impressive and full of the passion and, commitment that is required to be successful in our great region. And it is encouraging to know that there remain young entrepreneurs who have the same drive, ambition and business savvy as the most successful among us.
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Author:MILLS, PATRICIA
Publication:Northern Ontario Business
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Date:Nov 1, 2000
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